Set 1: The Spacious Mind, live at Skogsnas October 26, 1999. We hear the entire concert.
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The Spacious Mind

Upon Which Areas May The Circles Be Drawn?" (track 1)
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Live Volume One: Do Your Thing But Don't Touch Ours

Goddamn I'm A Countryman

An easy-moving, often slow space-blues, sort of a spacey-mournful feel at times, picks up near end, best at lower volume.

Most concerts can be played 1 track at a time, but not this 1. I think it's essential to listen to this concert as a whole & all together. Done so, it creates a mood that is just not present otherwise. Very fine music, indeed.

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The Spacious Mind

Jam (track 2)
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Live Volume One: Do Your Thing But Don't Touch Ours

Goddamn I'm A Countryman

Quiet psych-rock blues, picks up speed for a while but then calms down.

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The Spacious Mind

The One That Really Won The War (track 3)
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Live Volume One: Do Your Thing But Don't Touch Ours

Goddamn I'm A Countryman

Starts easy, a bit heavier than what came before, picks up speed moderately & gradually, quieter last 3 minutes.

Quiet and gentle start as a kind of guitar and organ introspection, builds almost imperceptibly until it finally fades out as the band plays on.

The concert actually went on for another 15 minutes or so, but the limitations how it was recorded didn't allow for that long a recording.

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Mic break between Sets 1 & 2. Background music played during it:
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Les Chakachas

Love is like a Violin (track 4)

Arriba!

RCA International

Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 2: the old radio show portion of the evening.
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Escape

Border Town

Originally broadcast December 23, 1949

(no label)

Not exactly a holiday special with a happy story....Our anti-hero, played by Jack Webb, is on a cross country bus trip to Hollywood. He finds some money, and sells it in a seedy Mexican border town. He promptly gets drugged and robbed - and it's downhill from there, because Mr. Wearily Existential (Webb) wants his money back, especially after he finds out the money is real. Or is it?

"Border Town" is episode #101 in the Escape series, and also starts William Conrad and Jeanette Nolan.

From John Dunning's The Encylcopedia Of Old-Time Radio: "...widely considered radio's greatest series of high adventure....Never on radio was the action formula more effectively utilized."

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Mic break between Sets 2 & 3. Background music played during it:
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Les Chakachas

Love is like a Violin (track 4)

Arriba!

RCA International

Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 3: a good half hour of mostly punk. Great to play loud!
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Jesus Trip

The (Magnificent Breathing Machine) Ventilator (track 2)
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The Morning Star

Bottled Rag

Slow+ tempo druggy punk-psych, with a distant Public Image influence. The music was no doubt influenced by a group member's actual chemotherapy.

Imperial Leather

Power Of Blame (track 4)
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Do You Know Where Your Children Are?

Profane Existance

Easy tempo, solid.

Amebix

Carnage (track 10)
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No Sanctuary

Alternative Tentacles

Deep, dark, and quirky.

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Ministry And Co-Conspirators

Radar Love (track 3)
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Cover Up

13th Planet

Lots of fun. Their version of Golden Earring's classic.

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Mildred Pierce

D.O.M. (track 19)
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R.A.F.R. Volume 2

Flipside

A really good compilation. We hear more from it later in this set.

Cosmic Psychos

Guns Away (CD 2, track 17)
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Fifteen Years, A Million Beers

Dropkick

More big sound from a great band.

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Los Creepers

Hey (track 7)
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LA County Line

Split Seven

Ultraviolent

Dead Generation (track 12)
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Killed By Hardcore

Redrum

Does the Dead Generation come after the Blank Generation?

Hellacopters

Lowdown (track 3)
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R.A.F.R. Volume 2

Flipside

Coffin Cheaters

Kids Are Gonna Fight (track 20)
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R.A.F.R. Volume 2

Flipside

Some fine garage punk.

MOB 47

Nitlott (track 5)
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Dom Ljuger Igen

Communichaos Media

From their website: "...after a mere 20 years they are back....One of the most influential bands in Swedish hardcore."

Ratas Del Vaticano

Encadenado a la Rutina (track 7)
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Mocosos Pateticos

Delhotel

The fastest track in the set.

Mic break between Sets 3 & 4. Background music played during it:
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Les Chakachas

Love is like a Violin (track 4)

Arriba!

RCA International

Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 4: some sacred music, from Java.
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Local musicians of the Gamelan Sekati Guntur Madu of Kraton Surakarta

Sekaten gending (track 2)

Gamelan Of Central Java II: Ceremonial Music

Felmay

Airy and mystical. A "gending" is a composition. This is a "sacred" gamelan, "used only to play the type of music heard here." We hear one of "the most ancient and revered in Central Java." Track 1 on this CD is a shorter version of the same piece - we'll hear it at a later date.

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End of show mic break. Background music played during it:
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Les Chakachas

Love is like a Violin (track 4)

Arriba!

RCA International

Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Listener comments!

Mon. 7/14/08 2:24am
Droll:
I love Golden Earring and I love Ministry, but that's the second time I've heard that cover and I think Al et. al. missed the point on that song. The original is such a fantastic performance, they really make a 1-chord song hold the attention. Ministry makes you stick around to see what other subtleties they leave out.
That said, fine show. Play any damn thing you like.

Mon. 7/14/08 2:30am
Andrew:
Wait until you see what they've done to Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World". I love it, and will play it sometime soon.